238 OX THE FOSSIL BONES OF THE PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



skeleton equally perfect found at Butigliera in the same neighbour- 

 hood*. 



The bones preserved in the museums of Turin, are in general those 

 found at Montferrat. This is a province almost entirely formed of 

 those sandy mountains skirting the Apennines. They are almost of 

 the same nature as those that skirt them on the side of Tuscany. 



The plain of Lombardy and even the banks of the Po, are not un- 

 provided with them. We have in the King's Museum, a lumbar ver- 

 tebrae, a cubitus, and an ischion, which have been contributed by the 

 late Mr. Faujas. 



The museums of natural history at Pavia and Milan, contain several 

 other fragments, as I can testify. 



Mr. Brocchi mentions some from the vicinity of Pavia, of Sanco- 

 lombano, and even from the river Po f. 



They have been found even in the higher vallies of the Alps, if we 

 are to credit the testimony of the Marquis of St. Simon, who states in 

 his history of the war of the Alps in 1744 J, that all the bones of an 

 elephant were dug up at the foot of the lesser St. Bernard. Nor is the 

 opposite extremity of Italy without its share. 



Fortis mentions bones dug up near Montefusco, in the country 

 anciently occupied by the Hirpini, not far from Beneventum §. There 

 were also the supposed bones of giants found near Puzzuolo ||, and 

 Avellino which ajoins it %. 



Jerome Magius speaks of a skeleton five arms length long, found near 

 Reggio, while excavating a reservoir. It is probable that it was 

 also at Reggio that the skeleton was discovered, of which a tooth more 

 than a foot in length was brought to Tiberius. But the passage of 

 Phlegonus, which alludes to this occurrence, is rather equivocal, as far 

 as regards the precise locality**. 



Kircher mentions a giant's tomb discovered near Cosenza in Ca- 

 labria tt- The Journal of the Abbe Nazari speaks of a skeleton which 

 was declared to be eighteen feet long, exhumed in 1665 at Tiriolo 

 in Upper Calabria +J. It is stated, indeed, that these bones bore a 

 decided resemblance to those of a man, but at the present day we 

 have learned to estimate the meaning of those comparisons. The 

 smallness of the teeth, however, which only weighed from three- 

 quarters of an ounce to an ounce and a third, may lead us to doubt 

 of its having belonged to an elephant. 



Thomas Bartholin instances real fossil ivory found in Calabria, 

 and near Palermo in Sicily, and bones of elephants- found near Mes- 

 sina §§. 



* Amoretti on a Tooth and part of the Mandibola of a Mastodonte, page 5. 



f Treatise on the Shells of the Appennines, vol. i. p. 181. 



t Preface, p. 22, and in Deluc. Pass, of Hannibal, p. 171. 



§ Fortis' Memoirs of the Natural History of Italy, vol. ii, p. 328. 



H Scipio Mozella's Antiquity of Puzzuoli in Fab. Colum. 



•[f Fabius Columella de Glossapet, p. .34. 



** Phleg-OQ. Trail, de Mirab. chap. xiv. 



+-f- Kircher's Subterranean World, book viii, sect, ii, chap. iv. 



X+ Academical Collection, p. 178. 



§§ De Peregrin. Medic, p. 3S. 



